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¡Bienvenidos! Bem-vindos! The Department of Luso-Hispanic Studies at Middlebury College is dedicated to providing the highest quality education to its students with respect to language learning, liberal arts training, and the understanding of cultural diversity.

Our department has the luxury of having faculty members from 8 different countries. We offer a rich curriculum with courses in language, literature, linguistics, and visual culture. Our students have the opportunity to study at any of our 21 sites in five different countries of the Middlebury C.V. Schools Abroad in Spain and Latin America. It is possible to begin Spanish at Middlebury and study abroad junior year. On campus, our students take advantage of the Spanish and Portuguese tables that bring faculty and students together at lunch every weekday. Students can further immerse themselves in their language of choice by living in the Spanish House or the Portuguese House, where the language of study is used exclusively and a variety of activities are organized throughout each semester.

Associate Professor of Spanish Irina Feldman recently organized a public lecture by Mario Siddhartha Portugal Ramirez who discussed the main findings of his ethnographic research in Ecuador during 2015 and 2016. Click here to watch the lecture.